Selection on variance-controlling genes: Adaptability or stability

Evolution

Volumn 66, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 3945-3949

  Pettersson, Mats E ^a   Nelson, Ronald M ^a   Carlborg, Örjan ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Epistasis; Genetic variation; Models simulations

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; EPISTASIS; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC VARIATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; SELECTION; STABILIZATION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENVIRONMENT; EVOLUTION; GENETIC SELECTION; GENOTYPE; PHENOTYPE;

ALGORITHMS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENVIRONMENT; GENOTYPE; MODELS, GENETIC; PHENOTYPE; SELECTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84870564967     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2012.01753.x     Document Type: Article

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